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An option writer who does not own the number of shares required to cover the call options he or she writes.
Industry:Financial services
The percentage split between the general partner and limited partners of profits and losses resulting from the operation of the involved business.
Industry:Financial services
Transaction in which a stock contract is settled and delivered on the fifth full business day following the date of the transaction (trade date). In Japan, regular settlement occurs three business days following the trade date; in London, two weeks following the trade date (at times, three weeks); in France, once per month.
Industry:Financial services
A run consists of a series of bid and offer quotes for different securities or maturities. Dealers give and ask for runs from each other.
Industry:Financial services
An approach that suggests that a firm pay dividends if and only if acceptable investment opportunities for those funds are currently unavailable.
Industry:Financial services
The idea that people rationally anticipate the future and respond today to what they see ahead. This concept was pioneered by Nobel Laureate, Robert E. Lucas, Jr.
Industry:Financial services
Turn, unwind. For convertible reversal, selling a convertible and buying the underlying common, usually effected by an arbitrageur. For market reversal, change in direction in the stock or commodity futures markets, as charted by technical analysts in trading ranges. For options reversal, closing the positions of each aspect of an options spread or combination strategy.
Industry:Financial services
In the money and bond markets, the standard basis on which some security trades are settled is that the delivery of the securities purchased is made against payment in Fed funds on the day following the transaction.
Industry:Financial services
A summary of the amount and prices of a serial bond issue that is still available for purchase.
Industry:Financial services
A method of allocating the purchase price for the acquisition of another firm among the acquired assets.
Industry:Financial services
